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School kids have fun as Jet dealer marks Road Safety Week
Jet dealer AW&D Hammond in Halesworth welcomed pupils from its local primary school onto its forecourt to mark Road Safety Week (November 21-25), a national initiative run by the road safety charity, Brake. More than 80 pupils aged from five to seven, who attend the Edgar Sewter primary school - ...
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Shell forecourt development plans put on hold
Plans to redevelop a Shell forecourt at Pool-in-Wharfedale near Leeds have been put on hold after opposition from locals.According to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Shell wants to knock down the existing forecourt at Pool Road and build a much bigger shop but locals say the plans are “dangerous”.A local councillor ...
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Forecourt Show 2017 already larger than 2015
Make a date in your diary for 24-26 April 2017, because that’s when The Forecourt Show will take place at the NEC Birmingham, alongside National Convenience Show and Farm Shop & Deli Show, showcasing more than 600 exhibitors and brands. The Forecourt Show is already 10% bigger than in 2015, ...
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£375m additional support for ULEVs
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has announced £375m in additional support between 2017 and 2021 to accelerate the transition to ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) in the Autumn Statement. The funding includes £150m to create a cleaner bus and taxi fleet; £80m towards electric vehicle charging infrastructure; £40m of additional support for ...
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BOSS recruits development adviser
The British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS), the independent trade organisation campaigning to reduce forecourt crime, has recruited Gary Worrow as development adviser. Worrow will be responsible for spearheading the development of the BOSS Electronic Reporting System (ERS) as an integrated management system that helps retailers to reduce forecourt crime. He ...
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Spar forecourt wins Appleby Westward awards
A Spar forecourt store at Maiden Newton in Dorset has won the Best Forecourt 2016 award at the third staging of the Appleby Westward Retail Awards. Olly Andrews’ Maiden Newton store won the Best Forecourt award along with the Best Spar Brand award, while colleague Abi James won the Best ...
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NewsApplegreen to build its biggest GB site
Fast-growing Top 50 Indie Applegreen UK has won planning permission for its biggest development on the UK mainland. Its application for a 5,000sq ft trunk road service area (TRSA) on the A14 at Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, was approved by nine votes to four by Huntingtonshire District Council’s planning committee. Applegreen’s parent ...
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Booths to open Texaco forecourt
A major food and drink retailer in the North West, Booths, is to add a new build Texaco-branded forecourt to its shop in Ormskirk, Lancashire, early in 2017. Its site in Ormskirk is built on the former World War II naval air station, HMS Ringtail, and has been built to ...
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Philip Morris shuns crooked retailers
Tobacco company Philip Morris (PML) has revealed that between December 2015 and September 2016 it excluded 43 retailers, with a further 7 exclusions pending, from its trade programs and field sales force call base in cases where stores have been found to engage in the sale of illicit tobacco products. ...
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Hampshire site closed after LPG leak
Fire fighters imposed an exclusion zone around a Co-op forecourt in Hampshire for the second time after a suspected LPG leak on Monday November 21. Fire crews were called to the Co-operative Petrol Station on Wellworthy Road in Lymington, just a week after the station was first closed because of ...
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PRA welcomes duty freeze in Autumn Statement
The PRA has welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to invest in road infrastructure and not to raise duty on fuel in his Autumn Statement today. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: “In recent weeks, we have been meeting with Treasury officials to discuss the impact of a fuel duty cut and have ...
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Dealer rents site in "record time”
NTS Retail Ltd has recently completed the letting of a former BP Petrol Station in Bridgwater, Somerset, in what it describes as record time. From first inspection to legal occupation was completed in less than one week. The previous tenant was vacating and NTS Retail was able to act promptly ...
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IGD predicts rapid food-to-go growth
IGD is predicting the burgeoning food-to-go market will be worth £21.7bn by 2021, up from £16.1bn this year, offering significant opportunities for growth. IGD splits the market into five segments, with all expected to increase significantly by 2021, and it forecasts food-to-go sales at convenience, forecourts and other retailers will ...
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Man stabbed at Tesco forecourt
The Essex Police service is appealing for witnesses after a man was stabbed and sprayed with what is believed to have been CS gas on a forecourt in Ongar. Officers were called by the ambulance service just after 4.50pm on Tuesday November 22 with reports a man had been stabbed ...
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NewsMorrisons to open shops on Rontec sites
Morrisons is planning to pilot a convenience food offer in ten petrol station shops owned and managed by Top 50 Indie Rontec. Four Morrisons Daily shops will open before Christmas and a further six in January. They will be up to 3,000sq ft in size, and will sell branded and ...
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NewsMorrisons turns up the heat on fuel prices
Morrisons has turned up the heat on last week’s supermarket fuel price cuts with promises that its customers will pay below £1-a-litre for petrol for the first time since the Brexit vote. Over the weekend, the supermarket reduced the price of unleaded to a maximum of 109.9ppl at its 333 ...
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Motorists concerned about emissions says RAC
Motorists want to be part of the solution to the UK’s air quality problems with an increasing number concerned about emissions and a majority wanting bolder action to be taken, according to the RAC Report on Motoring 2016. A clear majority (66%) of more than 1,700 motorists surveyed this year ...
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Dealer anger over BP delivery problems
BP dealers nationwide have complained of sites running dry of unleaded petrol after the oil company transferred fuel deliveries to Hoyer on November 1. The problems appear to be across England with dealers’ sites running dry as far south as Southampton and up to Cumbria in the North, as well ...
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NewsPolice investigate forecourt attack
Metropolitan Police have released CCTV footage of an attack on a forecourt which left a man with a fractured jaw. The incident occurred after two men were seen parking a car in the forecourt of the Esso petrol station in Broadway, Bexleyheath, south-east London on Wednesday 5 October. But a ...
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Used car sales at record levels
Growth in the used car market continued in the third quarter of 2016 as UK buyers bought a record 2,148,050 vehicles, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Demand grew 7.9% compared with third quarter of 2015. Consumer appetite for alternatively fuelled vehicles rose ...